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sata re. He was fortunate, too, in havi ying instilled into one of his daughters 
me love of language which i mbued his own min , and her familiar 
- When the war vgn England broke out in 1812, the Subject of this sketch, 
with other young men of the neighborhood, offered their serv ices in defense 
of the altars and firesi es of their country in case of invasion. A volunteer 
company was formed and drilled at West Chester, ready to serve ir called 
company was incorporated chose him Major of the first battalion. In this 
post he served until the a was disbanded, and was rewarded like his 
fellow-soldiers with the meagre pay of that — and the still more meagre 
national ao of af acres of the public dom 
— the anti —— his fellow ditizens at home, A pier es his 
fc) physi sician, ‘a friend of e education, a citizen soldier, and an enlight- 
“ning statesinan, elected him unsolicited, a member of the eriavene In 
= 
Duri his second term the celebrated Missouri question agitated the 
Union from one end to the other, and called fo orth the ablest efforts of the best 
i 
that occasion he said: ‘We a re solemnly bound not — to secure 
_ our own welfare, but to provide, as Pos an, for that of o x. 
r posterity. 
hen we know that the welfare of our desoondants in Saatiods as well as 
diffusion it to our sense of duty to permit the unnecessary i 
usion of an evil which ve are sure wi// be the scourge of countless genera- 
“Dr, Rata was one of the members of the first board of Canal Com- 
missioners, and w was associated with = men as Albert Gallatin, John Ser- 
 geant, Robert W. Patterson, — David Scott, whose names hold a distin- 
guished place in our country’s i He —_ in that station two years, 
: itis the last of which he was President of the board.” 
aa incon —_— alluded to, oe tibraal though a ae and exacting, did not 
Dr. Darlington from owing some attention to Natural Science, 
aad nda ng his taste for hanes In 1826, in conjunction with some of his 
te feeds he assisted in organizing the Chester County Cabinet of 
aon Science, of which institution he was President from its origin; and 
: is * Pl : : abat 
in the same year he published his ‘ » being ac. 
Plants growing pF aba = borough of West Chester, Pennsylvania. 
“The e of Cana , being then per- 
aabosly, ety calling ‘an away from more than either 
in ro’ rk 
ative county, by his political and personal friend, the late lamented Governor 
Schulze, the duties of which office he continued to discharge till 1830, 
